Suspenders for overalls



March 11, 1930. B. MESZAROS I S USPENDERS FOR OVERALLS Filed March 25, 1929 SI m .0 R. m .5 Em. N MT R m w A m m 5 u of the class specified of strong durable con Patented Mar. 11, 1930 PATENT OFFICE IBELA MESZABOS, OF NEW YORK, N.

SUSPENDEBS FOB OVERALLS App1ioati0n. filed March 25, 1929. Serial No. 349,623.

This invention relates to improvements in suspenders or braces and has particular reference to workmens suspenders intended for rough hard usage.

The object beingto provide such a suspender so constructed that the wearer is comfortable and unimpeded in body and shoulder movements while working.

A further object being to provide a device struction tending to long service.

Features of the invention are found in resilient back straps comprising spiral springs connected at their ends to sockets having plate extensions connected at one end of the springs to a slotted cross plate through which the shoulder web or tape of the suspender is passed, said plate extensions being connected at the opposite ends of the 0 springsto hook devices for engaging loops or the like or the back portion of overalls or trousers.

Chains are connected to the ends of the above mentioned springs at a point within the said sockets and serve to limit the stretch or expansion thereof.

The invention possesses other advantageous features, which, with the foregoing, will be set forth at length in the followin description, where I shall outline in full tha t form of the invention which I have selected for illustrationin the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification.

Briefly, the invention consists in providing a novel construction in suspenders or braces for overalls and et cetra, permitting tree unimpeded body movements of the wearer in contradistinction to the usual shoulder straps which have no give or resiliency, thus preventing free shoulder and body movements of the wearer. i

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of theimproved suspenders shown attached to fragments of a pair of overalls.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial sectional elevation of one of the resilient back straps, the line of section being about on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, said strap being extended to its limit.

f Referring now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 10 indicates the improved suspenders comprising a shoulder web 11, which has its ends threaded through slotted buckle plates 12 in the usual manner, said plates permitting adjustment of the web for length as. is well known. Carried in the loop of the web below the buckle plates 12 are hook devices 13 of a well known construction which are adapted to engage loops 14L or the like stitched or otherwise secured to the front and rear edges of a pair of overalls, portions of which are shown at 15.

When assembling the parts, one end ofthe web 11 is passed through a slot 16, formed in a cross plate 17 and connected at either side of this cross plate 17 by pivot pins 18 are plates 19 unitary with sockets 20 which serve to enclose the upper ends of expansiblc springs 21, the terminals of which being confined between the plates and anchored on cross pins 22.

The lower or opposite ends of the springs 21, are likewise enclosed in sockets 23, having unitary longitudinally extending plates 24 between which the spring terminals are anchored on cross pins' 25, and pivoted on pins 26 are hook devices 27 having gate pieces 28 to close the hook when the suspenders are in use.

To limit the expansion of the springs 21 a chain 29 is provided which has its end link in-interlocking engagement with the ends of said springs as shown at 30 and 31 of Fig. 2.

What I claim as new, is:

.1. In a suspender having a shoulder web and devices thereon for attaching the same to overalls, a cross plate through which said shoulder web is passed, a plate extension on said cross plate, hook devices adapted to 'enn gage the overalls, also having plate exten sions, oppositely placed pairs of sleeve heads pivoted to the plate extension on said cross plate and to the extension of a hook device, 0 respectively, an expansible coil spring, the

2. In a Suspender having a shoulder web, and devices thereon for attaching the same to overalls, a cross plate through which said shoulder web is passed; a downwardly extending plate extension on said cross plate; a hook device to engage the overall, having an opposingly placed plate extension to said first mentioned extension; a pair of spring receiving sleeve heads pivotally secured to said plate extensions in opposing directions; a coil spring secured at its two ends in the said two sleeve heads and a limiting chain secured to said sleeve heads and placed within said coil spring.

5 3. In a suspender having a shoulder web, and devices thereon for attaching the same to overalls, a cross plate through which said shoulder web is passed; a downwardly extending plate extension on said cross plate;

a hook device to engage the overall, having an opposingly placed plate extension to said first mentioned extension; a pair of spring receiving sleeve heads pivotally secured to said plate extensions in opposing directions;

a coil spring secured at its two ends in the said two sleeve heads and a limiting chain secured to said sleeve heads and placed within said coil spring, each of said sleeve heads having a pair of spaced apart ears to receive the respective plate extension between them;

a pivot pin passing through said ears adjacent to their ends and through said plate extension to pivotally secure the same to said plate extension, and a second inner pin also 13 passing through said ears and to which the ends of said spring and limiting chain are secured.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 15th day of March, A. D. 1929.

BELA MESZAROS. 

